Both of us have tried both slots. I believe Andy has improperly set
up his SD card and that might fix his problem, but my system didn't
boot into linux right out of the box as I expected it to. The card
was already in the right slot(even though I ended up trying both just
to troubleshoot it). I just read through the boot section of the
manual AGAIN, and it still seems to me that for whatever reason it
can't get to/unpack/or load the kernel. Once I've dd'd the fastboot
image to the card, do I have to additionally load a kernel into
partition 1 manually or something? From everything I've read, this
should have just booted up when I first got it without modification
given proper cabling and power supply(which I have).
--- In ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com, "Eddie Dawydiuk" <> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > I'm having this same EXACT problem on a brand new TS-7300 board. I'm
> > using a 256meg SD card sent from Technologic with the debian
> > distribution preloaded.
>
> Keep in mind there are two SD card slots. The bootrom will attempt to
> boot to the SD card slot nearest the EP9302. If you put your SD card in
> the wrong slot then the board would never boot as you have reported...
>
> //Eddie
>
> > --- In ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com, "Alvaro Aguirre" <alvaro.aguirre@>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> dd it to /dev/sde, not /dev/sde1
> >>
> >> dd if=fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd of=/dev/sde
> >>
> >> good luck!
> >> Alvaro
> >>
> >> On 10/27/06, andygryc <andy@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> I've just got a new ts7300. I'm familiar with the ts7250 (we have a
> >>> new product that includes it), but I'm just started trying to
make the
> >>> SD flash for a boot image.
> >>>
> >>> I've downloaded the fast boot image, and I think I've put it on a
> >>> card. It's a 256MB card as suggested in the instructions, and the
> >>> card compares properly (at least for the first piece of it).
> >>>
> >>> ~]# dd if=fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd of=/dev/sde1
> >>> 488448+0 records in
> >>> 488448+0 records out
> >>> ~]# dd if=/dev/sde1 of=compare.dd
> >>> 499611+0 records in
> >>> 499611+0 records out
> >>> ~]# ls
> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 andy andy 255800832 Oct 26 23:28 compare.dd
> >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 andy andy 250085376 Oct 26 23:11
> >>> fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd
> >>> ~]# cmp compare.dd fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd
> >>> cmp: EOF on fastboot-7300-sdcard-7-6-2006.dd
> >>>
> >>> Notice that the card is slightly bigger than the fastboot
image--don't
> >>> know if that's causing a problem or not.
> >>>
> >>> I put the SD card in the left slot (between the jumper and the power
> >>> blocks). I think this is the correct slot (although I've tried
both).
> >>>
> >>> However, I get no sign of recognition from the TS-SDBOOT; I just get
> >>> the boot message over and over again, so it clearly isn't
recognizing
> >>> the image.
> >>>
> >>> I'm using the SanDisk ImageMate 5-in-1 reader (SDDR-99 v4), which I
> >>> load via "/sbin/modprobe usb-storage" to create the /dev/sde1 device
> >>> on my system. I know that this is the right device, because 1) it
> >>> doesn't appear unless the SD is plugged into the SanDisk reader, and
> >>> 2) it blinks red when I read/write the card with dd.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts as to what to do next to diagnose the problem?
> >>> --Andy Gryc
> >>> Airchitex, Inc.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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